Gluten Free Sweet Potato Sugar Cookies

Ingredients:

2 large Sweet Potatoes

1 cup Sugar

1 stick Butter (melted or softened)

1 tbsp Milk

1 1/2 tsp Vanilla

1 Egg

1 tbsp Molasses

1 cup Gluten Free All Purpose Flour Blend

1 1/2 cup Almond Flour

1/4 tsp Salt

1/2 tsp Xanthan Gum

1/2 tsp Baking Powder

1/2 tsp Cinnamon

1/2 tsp Nutmeg

1/2 tsp Ginger



Directions:


Preheat oven to 400 degrees.


Wash sweet potatoes, and poke several times with a fork. Place sweet potatoes on a cookie sheet, and place into preheated oven for 1 hour to 90 minutes depending upon size, until potatoes are done and tender to the touch. Remove from oven, and allow potatoes to cool enough to touch. Once cool, remove skins from potatoes and discard skins.


Reduce temperature of oven to 375 degrees.


In a large bowl, cream sugar and butter using a hand mixer. Add milk, vanilla, egg and molasses and cream again.


In a medium size bowl, mix Gluten Free All Purpose Flour Blend, almond flour, salt, xanthan gum, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger.


Blend flour mixture into creamed mixture.


Spray cookie sheet with non-stick spray. Using a small scoop, scoop dough onto cookie sheet about 2 inches apart.


Bake for 20 minutes. Allow to cool a few minutes before removing from cookie sheet, and ENJOY!

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